Ironing board



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W. C. MARKS. IRONING BOARD. -APPL|cAr|oN FILED SEPT. 29, 1920.

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traitee WILLIALM C. MARKS, OF CLEVELAND,

onto, Assieivon ro Cnn-'or LAUNDRY MACHINERY CO. LTD., OF CHICAGO, ILLINQIS, A CORPORATON OF NEW YORK.

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To @Zt whom t may concern 'Be it known that I, VLLIAM C. Manns, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Ironing Boards, of which the following is a specilication. j

This invention relates to an ironing board, intended particularly for ironing the bosoms of shirts or other wearing apparel which it may be desired to stretch as a step preliminary to ironing, and particularly to that' class ot ironing boards in which, in addition to the means at one end for `firmly anchoring and holding the workpiece, means are provided at the opposite end i'or engaging with the free end of the goods, for instance, the tail of the shirt, and drawing the article tightly over the ironing surface.

The object or the present invention is to provide an improved means free end ot the garment. Accordingly, the invention consists primarily in providing` upon a member which is movable relatively to the ironing board to develop vtension in the garment, an area ot' impaling pins or projections through which to facilitate `engaging the garment with the movable member. The movable member may be a roller over which the end or the garment is laid, with the impaling pins projecting from the surface of the roller, and the movement 'for developing tension obtained by rotation of the roller; or the movable member may be ot any other suitable form with the impal ing pins projecting therefrom and the stretching movement developed by swinging such member relatively to the ironing board; or the arrangement may be such that both rotation of a cylindrical gripping member and swinging oi` such member may be resorted to, the rotation being for preliminary stretching and the swinging movement for continuing the .load upon the goods in the direction to maintain the tension. There rotation is used, a ratchet is preferably used to hold the pin roller to any adjustment to which it may be turned. Y

ln the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a plan view of an ironing board with one embodiment of the present invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of that portion of the construction shown in Figure l itor gripping they with which the invention is particularly concerned. .u

Figure 3 is a detail view on an enlarged scale of the stretching means shown in Figures 1 and 2, parts being in section to disclose their construction.

Figure t is a side elevation of a machine oli the kind shown in Figure l, but with a modified construction of stretching means; and

'Figure 5 isa detail view of the impaling pins which are used for engagement with the goods.

l represents an ironing board which, for purposes of illustration, is ot the type coinmonly used 'for ironing shirts, being provided with a yoke grip 2 and a stretcher 3.

rPhe stretcher 3 is in the form of a roller' carrying a ratchet 4L engaged by a dog 5 which is pressed to duty by a springG and adapted to be withdrawn by the lever 7, so that if the free end of the garment is engaged with the roller, andthe latter rotated to develop tension in the garment, the rotation will be kmaintained yuntil intentionally released. The operation of an ironing board upon the principle as thus far ldeseribeid has been known prior to the present invention; but heretofore the stretching 1roller 8 'has been vmade in the `orin'of asmooth cylinder, and gripping of the garment was accomplished only by careful winding of the end around the roller with sufficient turns to cause the garment to bind thereon.

According to the present invention, which provides a more convenient way of engaging the free end ot the garment with the roller, the roller 3 has its surface covered with impaling pins 3 in a manner to develop upon a part or all of the circumference thereof an impaling area over which the free end of the garment may be hurriedly drawn, and upon which it will be iinpaled so as to prevent slipping back over the roller without the necessity of imparting complete rotation to the roller. In drawing the garment on to the pins, some rotation will be imparted to the roller, and this rotation will be maintained by the dog 5 in engagement with the ratchet 4L, and by continuing to draw the end of the garment this rotation can be de veloped to an extent Suiiicient to develop the desired tension or stretching in the garment, so that the operation of ironing the body o the garment can proceed.

According to Figure il, the impaling pin roller 3, 3a, is not only mounted to rotate for convenient engagement of the garment therewith and the stretching incidental to such rotation, but said roller has its arms 8 mounted to swing vertically upon the pivot 9, so that in addition to stretching developed by rotation of the roller, gravitation of the roller with the arms 8 develops an additional stretching eli'ect and leaves the garment under a load which continues the stretching until the ironing operation is completed. In this aspect oit' the invention the rotary impaling roll 3 develops preliminary stretching, and the swinging of the stretcher develops the main stretching effect. Normally, 4the stretcher will hang in the position shown in dotted lines but may be raised to meet the goods preliminary to impaling them, and, after the rotation of the roll in the impaling operation which draws the garment substantially taut, the stretcher can be released to exert its weight upon the garment and develop additional stretching.

rIhe pins used as the impaling element are shown in detail, but on a very much enlarged scale, in Figure 5. They consist essentially of staples so embedded in a base of flexible material that they develop considerable resiliency, yet do not yield sufficiently to permit the goods to draw away from them. Their resiliency is of special advantage where the impaling is done by drawing the goods down upon them, as it will prevent tearing the goods by successive engagement of the dierent pins.

I claim:

l. In combination with an ironing board having means for sustaining a garment thereon, means for stretching the garment comprising an area. of impaling projections,

and a mounting for such projections through which they are moved to exert a pull on the garment; said projections being resilient and yieldingly exerting their pull upon the garment.

2. In combination with an ironing board having means .tor sustaining a garment thereon, means `itor stretching the garment comprising a cylindrical area of resilient impaling projections, and a rotary mounting for said projections through which they are moved to exert a pull on the garment; said resilient impaling projections having their ends deflected in the direction of rotation of said mounting.

3. In combination with an ironing board having means lior sustaining a garment thereon, means for stretching the garment comprising a cylindrical area of impaling projections, and a rotary mounting for said projections through which they are moved to exert a pull on the garment; said projections being resilient inv the direction of the circun'iference of the area and yieldingly exerting their pull upon the garment.

4. In combination with an ironing board. having' means for sustaining a garment thereon, means for stretching the garment comprising an area of resilient impaling projections, and a mounting or'such projections through which they are moved to exert a pull on the garment; said mounting comprising a radius arm with which the projections swing to tension the goods, and the area of projections being adapted to rotate on said radius arm to develop the tensioning effect.

Signed at Cleveland, Ohio, this 21st day of September, 1920.

WM. C. MARKS. 

